100 Years Ago: 1918 Poland Spring today is in a blaze of glory. Never before in its long history has the foliage been so varied and magnificent, and its lawns so spacious. Shrubbery of every sort and description may be seen on all sides while in the greenhouses by the stone chapel are many […]
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Looking Back on July 27
100 Years Ago: 1918 “Well, what do you all think about that,” exclaimed a man when his party came out of Howard’s Drug Store, South Paris, the other day after having a soda, and started for the big touring car with New York tags. “I guess Maine is up-to-date after all.” A clumsy, coughing, sputtering, […]
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Looking Back on July 26
100 Years Ago: 1918 Once again Lewiston and Auburn have given the best of their young manhood to swell the stream of American troops now pouring into France. On Friday morning there departed from these cities the largest draft quota of the war, 53 from Lewiston and 90 from Auburn. Of course, there was a […]
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Looking Back on July 25
100 Years Ago: 1918 Maj. James Moriarty of Lewiston will be elected colonel of the new 3rd Maine Regiment, National Guard at the meeting of the commissioned officers at Augusta, Thursday evening. It was learned here Wednesday that several persons who have announced themselves for office in the new regiment are ineligible to serve. Section […]
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Looking Back on July 24
100 Years Ago: 1918 (Lost watch ad): On Sunday, July 21, between Poland Spring and Rockland, a very small oval-shaped wristwatch, with a border of diamonds. Wristband consists of a small black ribbon. Initials E. P. C. on back of case. Finder return to Mrs. M.R. Gano, Poland Spring House, South Poland, Me. Very liberal […]
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Looking Back on July 23
100 Years Ago: 1918 Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mayhew of Dennison Street, Auburn, have as their guest their niece, Miss Abbie S. Mayhew. Miss Mayhew, who has been in this country for a few months, is en route to Shanghai, China in October to resume her work as a physical director of the Young […]
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Looking Back on July 21
100 Years Ago; 1918 The new tax bills in Auburn will differ from those used heretofore. In addition to the usual information, printed on the bills, there will be a short table, showing where $1 of the tax money goes. It will be noticed that but 60 cents of a dollar is used for city […]
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Looking Back on July 20
100 years ago: 1918 Lewiston Democratic City Committee will meet within a few days to decide what course will be taken to fill the vacancy on the Legislative slate caused by the resignation of George A. Murphy, following the Ward 3 mix-up in which the recount was widely at variance with the informal inspection of […]
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Looking Back on July 19
100 Years Ago: 1918 At 1:30 p.m. the thermometer at the Gate House, which is official, registered 82. Others, not official, went higher. Of course, this wasn’t so very much, although it was probably the highest of the summer. But there was something about the dead humidity — the way in which the heat waves […]
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Looking Back on July 18
100 Years Ago: 1918 Browse this newspaper and it ought to be generally known that “coffee is not good for babies!” But the state board of health has discovered some need for making this fact public. The board also emphasizes the “necessity for sanitary dishwashing, the wash that really washes.” This is a hint to […]